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- Dictionaryostentation/ˌɒstɛnˈteɪʃn/
noun
- 1. the pretentious or showy display of wealth and luxury, designed to impress: "the office was spacious, but without any trace of ostentation"
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a show of wealth, possessions, or power intended to attract admiration or notice. (Definition of ostentation from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of ostentation. ostentation. Late prehistoric ostentation, by contrast, was aimed at a larger audience and there is no sign of an exclusive elite culture.
The meaning of OSTENTATION is excessive display : vain and unnecessary show especially for the purpose of attracting attention, admiration, or envy : pretentiousness. How to use ostentation in a sentence.
Ostentation is the pretentious or conspicuous showing of one’s wealth or importance. How does ostentation compare to show, display, and pomp? Learn more on Thesaurus.com.
If you describe someone's behaviour as ostentation, you are criticizing them for doing or buying things in order to impress people. [formal, disapproval] Consumers are abandoning the excess and ostentation of the 1980s. On the whole she had lived modestly, with a notable lack of ostentation.
a show of wealth, possessions, or power intended to attract admiration or notice. (Definition of ostentation from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of ostentation. ostentation. One person's ostentation may be another's good manners. From Dallas Morning News.
Ostentation is a pretentious or showy display (gaudy or flashy), usually designed to attract attention. Ostentation is a woman in a fur coat, covered in diamond jewelry, boarding a gold-plated private jet.
Ostentation definition: Pretentious display meant to impress others; pretentious showiness.
Definition of ostentation noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
OSTENTATIOUS definition: 1. too obviously showing your money, possessions, or power, in an attempt to make other people…. Learn more.
1. Pretentious display meant to impress others; pretentious showiness. 2. Archaic The act or an instance of showing; an exhibition. [Middle English ostentacioun, from Old French ostentacion, from Latin ostentātiō, ostentātiōn-, from ostentāre, frequentative of ostendere, to show; see ostensible .]
